Missing Rings: Jeff Gordon 2014
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Every season there is a champion. But with 1 driver winning it all there are always those who had it slip through their fingers. In 2014 Jeff Gordon was one of those drivers. This is the story of Jeff Gordon’s 2014 season, the season where a championship was seconds from reach.
Starts: 36
Wins: 4
Top 5s: 14
Top 10s: 23
Poles: 3
Laps Led: 1083
Standings: 6
Average Finish: 10.4
This showed how absolutely broken the 2014-2016 format is. Gordon should've won the championship on pts alone.
I’m a Dale Jr. fan and I completely agree
I kinda feel bad for Joey Logano as well because if we raced the 2004-2013 chase rules then Logano would have won.
I would keep the playoffs and the rounds format but make some changes to Reward consistency rather then winning
do not like this new one either stages...
Without the chase, he is a 7 time champion on points.
That Texas incident broke my heart as a Gordon fan.
You were 9 then. I'm not suprised xD
It p!$$ed me off as a Keselowski fan because of Gordon's block, then his whining, then Kevin Harvick instigating their fight to try to get them both suspended to make his championship route even easier. >:(
Ultimate23Dragon Bruh, both Gordon and Keselowski we're pissed at each other after blowing the tires. Harvick just made it worse.
Still have nightmares about it
Nothing Here petition for a UA-cam age limit
Jeff Gordon, a victim of circumstance.
It was his career after 2001 unfortunately sucks so badly
@@markanthony4930 Not even sucks. He still won and still contended for the championship 4 times and won 30 races. He slowed for sure. But no denying he shouldve grabbed a cup after 2001
If NASCAR kept the old point system Jeff would be a 7 time champion.
I don't like J Gordon particularly, but I dislike all of the stupid chase formats that NASCAR has dreamed up more!
@@rcracer8872 Actually, we do know that. If you look up online at the non chase standings, you can see Gordon would be champion under the old system in 2004, 2007, 2014
You really don't know that. With every rules changes comes changes in strategy, both short term and long term. You truly can't plaster the old series system over the new one and say "yep, he would've won." It doesn't work like that.
What if Jeff Gordon had never recommended Jimmie Johnson to drive for Hendrick also?
@@rcracer8872 You are calling me low IQ person when you can’t even make a counterpoint without losing your shit. Additionally, you did make a good point so props to you. Lastly, if Gordon fans are autistic, then Dale Earnhardt fans are probably worthless AIDS induced wastes of space. LOL ignore that last part. I actually respect Dale Earnhardt which is more than you can ask for from a Gordon fan.
Gordon could’ve won the title in 2004, 2007, and 2014 on points. He’d be a 7 time champion and hang it up at the right time. My only negative thinking on the entire chase format is that it screwed Jeff Gordon royally
@@rcracer8872 I wonder if Dale Earnhardt would be a 7 time champ if they ran the idiotic chase system when Earnhardt was winning championships
RC RACER 88 lol By numbers gordon is one of the greatest ever there is no denying it
@@rcracer8872 - You do realise that Gordon has more wins than Dale Earnhardt right?
@@rcracer8872 - It only took Gordon 482 races to surpass Earnhardt and you're more likely to see a better average finish from a driver who ran fewer races
@@rcracer8872 - You just cannot handle being wrong, can you?
I was at Jeff Gordon's final Brickyard 400 win.
I was there as well
So what i
I had such a swing of emotions that Phoenix race... when he crossed the line I went crazy cause he did it! He's in! Then that camera cut to that side by side battle. I've had breakups with girlfriends I'd rather experience again than that kinda heartbreak.
biiiiiiiig fax. i had the same experience
BrandonMusicChannel Me too. But this happened also outside of NASCAR in 2008 when at the final race of the Formula One season Felipe Massa did everything he needed to do and won the Brazilian Grand Prix and the championship in front of his home crowd. For 30 seconds he was until Lewis Hamilton passed Timo Glock for P5 on the last corner of the season to finish 5th, earning him enough to win his 1st F1 championship by that pass. So Jeff Gordon isn’t alone even though at Phoenix it was to race into the final four at Homestead Miami. Felipe Massa lost the championship when he won the race in front of his home fans and Lewis Hamilton broke the hearts of Brazilian Formula One fans by finishing in fifth and winning the drivers championship by one point. Yeah. So that being said they’re both similar stories at different racetracks but are on different racing circuits. Jeff Gordon in NASCAR. And Felipe Massa in Formula One. So both have similar stories but run different race circuits but both ended up the same way no matter what.
The MAN, Jeff Gordon!!!
Hey ya'll, did you hear that Jeff's 2015 season was better than 2014 despite having 3 fewer wins and only 7 top-fives (the same as his rookie season)?! Well, that's what NASCAR told us to accept as true so I guess we better just nod our heads and accept it, right?
Beautiful... just beautiful. Great Job!
This season still really, really hurts as a NASCAR fan, especially with Gordon as my favorite. I remember being extremely demoralized after this season but still somewhat excited for 2015. This season hurt, though. If things had gone even slightly different, we could be talking about Gordon as the 2014 Cup champion...
In my opinion the season was great but Texas is what really hurts! There is so much of what should've been!
@@Matt741000 but it didn't happen
To be fairly honest, gorgeous didn't deserve that title due to how much Gordon was being a prick that year. Got all mad at Brad Keselowski for a situation that Brad was forced to be in. If a championship is on the line and you see a move that could potentially help you win the race and move on to the championship 4, most people will take that opportunity.
Nerfgunner 360 In that case, you could argue that Gordon was forced into the situation of going high on the restart and dive it off the corner in order to slingshot by Johnson and Keselowski off of turn 2 and take the lead. It would've worked but Keselowski was there and the incident happened. They both did what they needed to do and ultimately I think it boiled down to an error on pit road by his team which put him a lap down. Gordon was consistently the best all season but just didn't lock up the title due to some extenuating circumstances.
100% agree. I haven't been as pumped for NASCAR as I was in 2014. So much good racing and excitement. Just wish Gordon could have actually got his hands on that fucker! #real7x
I really think theres a chance Gordon would still be racing today if he had won that title, it broke him in a way it seems
Nah, his back was screwed up too badly
He was doing well as commentator
Had he won that title, he would've called his 2015 season his victory tour and would've retired after the season was over
I remember around this time he was already talking retirement soon so who knows.
He might be had enough of getting screwed over by Brian France, that and his back problems
That was a great season. Jeff Gordon should've won.
Jeff's last win came as a gift from Matt kenseth. when Matt wrecked joey so Jeff could win.not really Joey just had it coming.
If Matt wasn't pissed about getting turned at Kansas, Jeff would not have made it the the final 4. Thank you Matt for that glorious day.
Jamie Lynn Gearheart Nope. That was clearly payback for what happened at Kansas that took Matt Kenseth out of the chase in 2015.
The Chase format is a joke, getting put out by a field filler with zero wins is exactly why Gordon retired the following year. He had enough of this nonsense.
Field filler, really. A Championship contender as a field filler? Had Ryan Newman's car had Hendrick equipment, he could of won. But he was REALLY close and was in RCR equipment. EXCUSE ME!!!
@@despacitosuarez the Chase format is trash, and yes Newman was a field filler. 0 wins and only 4 top 5's. Trash.
As a Jeff Gordon fan, I was rooting for Newman to win the championship on points at Homestead. Imagine what a middle finger it would be to NASCARs system if a winless driver with only 4 or 5 top 5s won the championship.
The system would make sense if you could no longer race when you’re eliminated. When the MLB playoffs start, there are 6 teams locked into the best-of-5 division series and 4 other teams competing for one game competition to get the last two spots and the losers go home. There’s not 20 other teams that you still have to play around. They’re at home on the couch watching the show because they didn’t show results in the regular season. Just my two cents. Once you’re eliminated, your car should be in the garage if you ask me.
@@jomama969 that's where NASCAR is different. The drivers that are eliminated from championship contention don't have to sit on a couch and watch the contenders race. They battle for wins for the rest of the season.
I knew coming into this it was going to end in tears for me, wasn't dissapointed.
Jeff Gordon should have won the Championship in 2014 and 2004 season.
Dont forget 2007
Right
RC RACER 88 dale screwed himself out of that one, he didn't deserve anything
Irishman G.F.S. How he got points taken away. Jr deserved the 2004 one.
Trenton Geth don’t forget 2007... he should be the 7 time champ, not JJ
2007 and 2014 will never go away from me (I can live with what happened in 2004, even if that final pit stop at Darlington hurt him). I hate those seasons because it was frustrating to see a dominant season become obsolete in 2007, and then there's this one. The year I hated the Penske Boys and acted like an angry football fan that one night in Texas.
Four years later, it pains me to watch that season except I no longer hate either Penske guy as much. Hell, that race was the first time I ever rooted so hard for Jimmie to win and I couldn't stand his dominance for so long. Afterwards, I've soften up on him where I view him as one of the best, not THE best (Gordon is my guy, so there's that) in history.
I kind of like Jimmy Johnson I'm a Gordon fan but I do kind of like Jimmy Johnson until he got caught cheating once you get caught cheating it puts all his Champion to that date to me it puts all those championships in question I don't know if anybody agrees with me just my opinion
If Newman never wrecks Larson on that final lap, that championship would be Gordons
I was at the 2014 Brickyard 400. The Texas race made me cheer for him even more, and unfortunately the Phoenix race made me hang up my fan hat of Ryan Newman. Fellow Hoosier though he may be, Newman wrecked Larson to get into a battle he didn’t deserve to be in. A champion who has 4 wins should have been in the final four as opposed to a non champion who has 0 wins. That is my opinion of course, life isn’t fair. But my respect for Newman only depleted after that season. Jeff should have won his 5th championship that year. I think if he would have won at Homestead it would have proven something.
So Newman, instead of competing for glory, should've just laid down and died? LOL ok. Not much of a racer, are you?
Collin McNaught for the record I think there is a certain way to do these things. I think Newman dumping Larson was a dirty way to get into the Championship 4. If you don’t have the car to get around 16th place without wrecking them you don’t have my respect. And yes I’m a race car driver. Got a championship to back it up. What do you have?
May I point out that Newman gave Harvick hell at Homestead and could've won the championship had his car had been a little bit better. I would like to ask you a question. Let's say you need 1 point to advance to the final round (which that one point really mattered since Johnson didn't get that one extra point got the 3-way tie with Aric and Larson and ultimately got eliminated from the round of 12 at the Charlotte Roval race in 2018) which could determine if you make or not. It's the final corner and the guy your racing for position is battling you hard and your both side by side, what do you do? A. Not wreck him and lose any chances of winning a Championship or B. Put him up into the wall. The driver would understand your decision. What do you do and why? A civilized answer would be appreciated.
Nerfgunner 360 to answer the question for me personally, I don’t wreck the guy. I race hard and race clean. Have I wrecked people in the past? Yes, but I wouldn’t wreck a guy no matter what is on the line. Does that make me less competitive? Up to you.
Now, to your point I 100% understand why Newman did what he did and know that if he had a better car he might have won the championship. I don’t have to like that, but I get why Newman did it.
However, I would not do the same thing. In my opinion.
@@MarcoEvens ok,thank you for answering appropriately, unlike many others in the past
I still have no idea why Jeff Gordon pitted out of the lead at homestead on one of those late cautions. Didn’t do him any well. I think there was some collusion there...gave Harvick the better lane on the restart
He said he wanted to let the fans see the contenders race for the win. He could've easily won that race by 3 seconds
I feel like Jeff mighta raced the 2016 season if he had won the 2014 championship
He had said if he won the 2014 championship he would have retired.
@@nascarjarrod2956 ok, I can have my opinion
And he would go on to make the final 4 2015 and 2016
@@nascarjarrod2956 that was a joke
Jeff should be the 3rd 7x champion..... not that 7x CHASE champion....
CAT FIGHT!
RC RACER 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr is not one of the best drivers of all-time. I love the guy, but he was a mediocre driver with good equipment and a iconic NASCAR name. He only won 30 something races. No championship. Only one Xfinity championship. His stats aren’t there. He had a good bit of top tens and top fives but you cannot say that he is one of the best of all-time.
His wife actually tweeted a picture right after 2014 Homestead of Dale Sr, Richard Petty and Jeff in the same photo; I think we all know what she was trying to say...
Ratfink820 Jr has two championships but 0 in cup he is not one of the best but will be in the hall of fame he was close in 2004 and 2014 but wouldn’t have one Gordon should have 7
RC RACER 88 When I was saying best I was meaning like one of the greats which he is not he was good but not that good and I was a Jr nation fan I was at Dega in 15 when he should have won. He was my favorite driver but he was not on the same level as Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Tony Stewart, and some other great drivers that he raced against he was good but wasn’t consistent year after year like mist of these guys.
One thing that wasn’t mentioned that always pisses me off was the idiotic driving of Clint Bowyer at the end of that Texas race. Gordon was cruising to victory until Bowyer drove himself into the wall trying to spin Paul Menard out for 17th place for some reason and brought out a completely unnecessary caution.
Spingate 2 perhaps.
Shawn F ugh I like both Clint and Jeff so I won’t hate them but u were right Clint was driving like a moran
EXACTLY!!!! same thing in Fontana THAT SAME YEAR!
Everything that Bowyer does will always be questioned after Spingate.
His missing ring is 2007, the last full season of Nascar I ever watched, and the last time I was a diehard fan of the sport.
I became a Jeff Gordon fan in 1993. Before that, I was a Davey Allison fan. He died in the helicopter crash...('93) so after that I picked a rookie and his name was Jeff Gordon. Rest is history.....
There is one thing not mentioned here that some people forget. After Gordon lost the tire at Texas, his pit crew messed up the following pit stop. That's where you could say he really had the damage done.
The whole Chase/playoff format has stolen championships away from Gordon, as well as a couple other drivers. Without it, we'd be talking about Jeff Gordon in the same group as Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt (can you imagine, Wonder Boy in company with The King and The Intimidator, as opposed to JJ...)?
Nick'sGaming the fans still do... JJ is the driver that the fans want to go away and never come back! He and Brian France together ruined the sport
@@johnboy4025 Johnson never did anything, only thing he did was adapt. Gordon was not willing to. There was an interview with Tony Stewart about Jeff Gordon talking about the old system which Tony proceeds to say "we don't use that system anymore so why are we talking about it?" Gordon just didn't want to adapt thus making him not that much of a title competitor. Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart both adapted to the chase system and look where they are now. This is Nascar's most competitive time and Johnson was able to overcome that to become 7 time. Brian France was the one who messed up the sport not the drivers
John Boy JJ has nothing to do with this. He didn't make the rules, he only raced to the rules. Jimmie is a great driver and so is Gordon.
Hope you all know that Brian France is not going to be CEO. We have been saved
@@despacitosuarez his miami win wasn't deserved it was carls
Great jobs with these videos man and Gordon had the 2014 Championship in the bag until Texas happened which was extremely heartbreaking and he should have won championships back in 2004 and 2007 and
Please do Missing Ring: Carl Edwards 2016
I have a long term schedule for uploads for the foreseeable future and that one will be done for sure
This was the last ounce of magic that Jeff Gordon had. This was the year that could have been a championship celebration for him. I hated how it had to end because Jeff was good that year and I knew that he was going to retire that year or the year after and I knew that 2014 would be his last multi-win season. But no regrets, he had a fine career otherwise but he was one of the drivers that NASCAR screwed with the new format and it messed up a lot of drivers and their careers. We'll never know how many drivers could have been great had the format not changed, it may have even given some drivers the hope and motivation to keep going. To a driver, it's so demoralizing to be "eliminated" and it is almost like being told you cannot race anymore and that hurts a team's momentum. But in the end, Jeff Gordon is a champion and he got 4 and certainly was good enough to get three more in 2004, 2007, and 2014 to put him right there with Earnhardt and Petty, I know that much. Just appreciate it for what it is, Jeff's last competitive year, he would win at Martinsville the next year but that year was different.
Terrible chase format. But Gordon made a point that he raced clean and just came up short, unlike Newman
I think it was more a shot at Brad, and Ryan after the race did say he'd be cool if Larson used him like he did if it came down to it and Newman was not a factor in the championship.
@@joekaput747 are you sure about that?
I am actually, now that you mention it.
@@joekaput747 you realize that near the end Harvick ran in front of Newman. They finished 1-2 and keep in mind that Newman had to battle Kyle Busch(not sure if he was in 2014's final) and Joey Logano (who I can confirm) both of whom, are in top gear equipment then there's Kevin Harvick. Also I know this isn't fully relevant but imagine Ryan Newman was able to win a Championship in medicore equipment against 3 people with top gear equipment. Everyone would of gone nuts!!!
@@despacitosuarez Not at Homestead. At Phoenix, when Newman used Larson as a moving wall to knock Jeff out of the final 4
Was waiting for this since you mentioned it in the podcast! glad to have your uploads man they help big time with my job at work.
2014 was the last good NASCAR season there ever was. After that, I watched 15 and then hung it up after 3 races of 16 due to a video here on UA-cam by a girl who was the very inspiration and reason why I've left NASCAR ever since!
This one hurts to watch. It feels like yesterday. I lost my father to cancer January 2015, so this was the last season I got to watch with him. We watched and cheered on Jeff every week for over 20 years. My dad got sick in the summer, and seeing Jeff win at Dover with him was one of the greatest NASCAR moments in my life; Jeff getting hit by Keslowski at Texas was one of the worst. And the end of Phoenix was absolutely heartbreaking. So yeah, this still hurts.
New series?! Love the idea!!! Texas was complete heartbreak. Was there with my buddy who's a diehard Jeff fan. Honestly split on how NASCAR should have handled the Newman deal at Phoenix. Unfortunately, Jeff's message will never be remembered and the 31's actions will live forever.
Kyle Larson himself said that he would have done the same thing, and I am sure you would too. If you needed to finish in a certain position and someone is not willing to give it to you and continues to race you very aggressively, you might as well put them into the wall and everything was on the line for Newman just look how Homestead came out with Newman almost winning the championship. Had he not made that move it would have been a cruise for Harvick but Newman gave Harvick hell. That is the best move in the Chase/playoffs ever
The system provokes moves like this and what Harvick did at Talladega a few years ago. The point is, Gordon should have been racing for the championship like Harvick should have then.
This was an awesome look-back at his 2014 season. Well done. #24Ever
Still breaks my heart. But the mistake they made was not changing the tire fast enough. They ended up going a lap down cause them to lose a lot more points
Can't believe that was 6 years ago. How time fly, yet memories still hurt for ever. #24 🐐!
Chase is completely broken. Gordon should also be the only 8 time champion 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2014 should have been Gordon Championship years
Martin would have been fifth. Johnson would have still won the 09 championship by 66 points over Gordon and 71 over Stewart. Martin would have lost by almost 400.
Source: www.jayski.com/news/pages/story/_/page/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup-Chase-History
2009 was actually JJ'S title with or without the Chase. He still would've won over Gordon by 67 points. Jeff did have the best AVG. finish in 2009, though.
almost 7 years later and it still hurts...
2014 is the year where i start watching the race and root for Jeff
This is probably the 2nd most deserving missing rings behind and a wide margin Kevin Harvick 2020
Wanted Jeff to get that 2014 title sooo bad. It's really hard to believe if you were watching NASCAR since the start of Jeff Gordon's career, that he only won 4 season titles the guy was such a beast from the mid 90's on I thought for sure he was gonna beat out Earnhardt & Petty & win 8 or 9 championships...
Gordon won at Kansas during my Senior Prom. I took it as a sign that this was going to be a great year, and lo and behold it was. This was Gordon's best run of the 2010s and it bummed me to no end when he was booted from the chase. I'll miss you Jeff #24Ever
hard to believe the playoff crap still exist. Even been introduced to xfinity and truck series recently.
My favorite driver, he had a chance but, conflict.
I'm so glad someone is actually doing a series on missing championships! I will be subscribing for sure
Thank you so much! I have a lot more planned for a long time to come so I hope you enjoy
@@TheIceberg awesome man!
Jeff Gordon was and will always be my favourite NASCAR driver
That 2014 aero package 😍
Missing rings Bill Elliott 1985 11 wins Winston Million and finished 2nd in points
I have a huge list of these planned out through late next year. This is definitely on it
11 wins and missed? Damn
Missing Rings: Kevin Harvick 2015 AND 2016
2017 and 2018 too
Could argue 2010 too.
Allen LaWalter he may win 2018
I'm one of the Gordon fans out there. I wish he did win that championship in 2014 and I'm not too big of the chase/playoff format either but that Texas race was just a bad outcome afterwards. I mostly blame Harvick for pushing Brad and that lead to the worst incident that time with Brad and Jeff. The best thing I've seen in 2014 was Gordon winning at Michigan which is my hometrack on August with that nice looking paint scheme too!
Kevin pushing Brad closer is the greatest moment from that season for me, even more than Jeff winning those races. God those last 3 weeks sucked.
Jeff Gordon came close to winning the championship so many times
0:19 after everything he was called at the start of his career, I never imagined JG would be called 'grizzled'! How things have changed and how much softer this sport we all love has gotten.
At Texas I was thinking, brawl of the decade? Are you crazy? But you're right, that mass shoving and holding contest was about the closest thing to a fight around that time. (thanks Harv!). Like Baker once said, "if I'm gonna get beat up I want it to be like that!"
Aaand @ 10:49 - noooo Jeff, don't say it. Of all the race tracks to make a comment like that.. How dya think Bowyer feels about that comment.
*Thanks so much for your videos. I have to spend a lot of time in hospital and these keep me going. Apologies for having too much to say tho, I get into these too much maybe!*
2014 had good racing :]
I was at the spring 2014 Kansas race, there were thunderstorms and a lot of wrecks early on. My sattilite didn't let me see the big one because of tornadoes in western Missouri.
That black Axalta scheme was by far my favorite Gordon livery, one of my all-time favorites still.
Missing rings Carl Edwards 2011
Missing Ring: Carl Edwards 2016
I have a plan for a long time for this series and that one will be done before the end of 2018
And 2008.
Carl Edwards should have been the 2008 and 2011 champion
@@NASCARFAN93100 that bs debris caution at homestead still stings
Aw man I haven’t even watched the video yet and I can tell I might not make it through the whole video without crying 😂 I’m a huge Gordon fan and I really appreciate this 1st missing rings video on my guy! You do such a great job with these videos. 2014 was My favorite nascar season because my 2 favorites had there best seasons (24 and 88) they both should’ve won the championship that year! The playoffs suck! Btw thank you for mentioning the Mother’s Day win for Gordon. That’s one of my favorite races ever because that was the first race on Mother’s Day weekend after my mother passed and Watching Gordon get the job done helped out a bunch! Thanks for the awesome video. You are one of my favorite youtubers and I haven’t been disappointed in a video yet!
I was baffled at Ryan Newman's stats that season as well. 5 top 5s and 16 top 10s Normally isn't even good enough to finish in the top 10 in points. Could you imagine if he won the title without even winning? That would have truly made their chase format in 2014 a total bust. Or, depending on how you view it, the perfect situation.
I was at the brickyard 400 to watch Gordon win. I was so happy to see my driver win.
2014 was arguably one of the greatest seasons ever. Next to 2001 and 2020.
This. Was. Great!
HE WILL ALLWAYS BE MY FAVORITE ATHLET ☝️💪🏁🏁🏁🏁🤗😎👊
I watched the race at about 2:00 live, and it still is the most exciting race I have caught live
Gordon should have been a 7 time champion. He was robbed by NASCAR for being too good. 2004 he scored the most points and 2007 he was obviously the best. He lost because of the system more than the competitors. 2014 was the same way. And before you say “they all races under the same rules” these rules are atrocious and broken! Brian France’s little panic button points system is the catalyst for NASCAR falling out of favor! And it is what made Jimmie Johnson the 7 time champ. Have him try to win 5 in a row via a points system where you have to be the best all year... COULDN’T DO IT... Also, 2014 and the fact that Ryan Newman, a guy who should have been outside the top 10 in points got to compete for the title and Jeff didn’t should show how stupid and broken the system is... with Brian France out of the picture, maybe Jim can give the fans what they want!
I still believe NASCAR asked him to move aside for Harvick and Newman at Homestead in 2014.
@@nascarfanatic2425 LOL yeah, surely NASCAR would want Ryan Newman in the final 4 instead of Jeff freaking Gordon.
@@OccasionalNASCARRaces Newman got in because of the flawed format. Gordon not winning the Homestead race was because NASCAR tries to put the focus on the final 4 battle. Seriously, have you noticed since they started this elimination style format that the Homestead race winner was one of the final 4 drivers? Even if they were mediocre all day, like Jimmie Johnson in 2016.
Indeed. No chase or playoff system worked fine for 60 some years. Since 2004, has there been more than 2 years without an adjustment to the postseason format? That alone speaks to the real 'success' of the chase
@@AgtWashingtub Yeah. NASCAR was Chase/Playoff free for it's first 55 seasons. (1948-2003) There were some changes to the points format over the years, but the one we had back in 2003 was the one we had since 1972. As soon as Brian France became CEO, the Chase got implemented, and it got changed every 3-4 years.
2004-2006: 10+ man format.
2007-2010: 12 man format.
2011-2013: Wildcard format.
2014-2016: Chase grid format.
2017-today: Playoff format.
And from what I understand, Monster Energy is pulling out as a sponsor of NASCAR after next season. And Brian France is selling NASCAR. So I think that should tell you that he never truly cared about the sport.
The missing rings Dale jr 2004
Won’t be the next one but it will be soon.
I'd say Jeff Gordon 2004.
2004,2007,2014
Also 2014 was the last year of a true cup car. Big aero no tapered spacer 900hp and also was a close to record high lead changes.
Oh thank god i love this series!
Growing up, I always assumed he would be the next seven time champion
Jeff Gordon also deserved to win the 2015 championship. If it wasn’t for Kyle getting his way then it would’ve just been a battle between him and harvick all year as far as points is concerned.
I was never much of a Gordon fan (have a ton of respect for the guy and always will, just never cheered for him to win.) nor a Keselowski fan, so I'd like to think I am unbiased here. With that said I did not blame Keselowski for Texas in 2014 and I don't now either. And I know that I'm in the minority in this but I've been meaning to say this for a while, and this seemed like a good video.
For starters, Keselowski entered the Texas race after a bad showing at Martinsville and was 26 points below the cut line. He needed a win either here or Martinsville and he knew it. As it was he ended up third in both of the races and still was 7 points out. Keselowski was going to take chances and I can't say I blame the guy for it.
I also believe Gordon did leave a gap. Look at 7:58, clearly enough room for Keselowski to fit his car here. Sure the gap closed up going into the turn but Keselowski had already committed to going for the spot and he came up while Gordon came down. I chalk that up to a racing incident and the system forcing drivers into these must win scenarios. There was no way Keselowski was going to back out there, not with 2 laps to go and a potential championship on the line.
I actually blame Gordon's crew more for what happened. Yes, shit hit the fan, but Gordon's crew handled it as bad as they possibly could have. His left rear was flat and Johnson was coming around to take the caution flag. What does his pit crew do? Slowly make their way around to the RIGHT side (why?), change two tires really slowly, then even after dropping the jack the crew chief hesitates a good 1-2 seconds before letting Gordon go...still with a flat tire mind you. He lost the lap which he never should have lost and in my opinion that cost Gordon the championship. Not Keselowski, not Newman, Gordon came to Homestead and had a car faster than all of the championship four as well. This year would have been his if not for his crew's bonehead move on pit road after the Keselowski incident.
To this day, I consider that one of the worst crew chief calls in my recent memory, along with Adam Stevens in the 2017 homestead race. Because both instances most likely cost their drivers a championship and anyone with an ounce of common sense could have made the right call in both instances.
You know what, even though I do blame Keselowski, I have to agree with you on that. The crew knew the left rear was blown, so why throw that race away? Jeff missed advancing by 1 point, and as strong as his car was, and as many cars as there were on the lead lap, Jeff could've made that up easily on fresh tires. So even though Keselowski initiated the situation, the #24 crew was ultimately who blew it.
I agree, I bloody agree
What about 2016? Sure it was Kyle Busch's choice but it really did cost him
2016 was fine. I'm talking about 2017 when Adam Stevens decided to do the last part of the race on one stop instead of two. Kyle had the best car of the four and was ahead of the four. His closest competitor at the time that they all decided to pit was Truex, who was nearly 4 seconds behind at that point. All he had to do was literally keep Kyle on the exact same strategy as the rest of them and he wins. Adam did not have to work any magic that race to get Kyle the championship. Instead he pits, risking that the race goes green to the finish. Yellow comes out at a bad time and Kyle was unable to make up the difference. As soon as I saw Adam make the call to leave Kyle out and do the race on one stop I knew it was a terrible decision.
Thats ridiculous keselowski ran into gordon
As a Jeff Gordon fan this video hurt to watch. So many what ifs... He even earned the pole and led a lot of the Homestead race.
The whole chase format is stupid. It totally screws rookies out of the championships because they need time to adapt to how the cup cars drive.
Chase Elliott almost made it in 2017. So what you said is inaccurate
Elliott was a rookie in 2016.
@@michaeltoss8204 messed up, meant 2016
I was at the race in Phoenix, absolutely crazy ending to what could have been Gordon's 5th title. Great memories though.
Jeff by the end of his career was being punished by fate for what seemed to be his early successes.. he had it so easy back in the rainbow days but once he got older and more mature he had such BS to deal with all the time.. it's so sad. I grew up as Jeff fan and I still love him now; he deserved so much better. Nascar went out of their way to make sure it would be tough for him to win #5 and as a result it created a monster which helped down the sport for a good while. Nascar in the 00's woulda been so much more enjoyable if they have never forced the chase BS.. Jeff woulda won 1-3 more like he deserved to do.. Stewart woulda done well still, Edwards and Hamlin coulda become champs, and Johnson would have 1-3 titles, not 7. It's a joke. The 2014 system's the worst thing they coulda done as Newman's folly made it fail instantly.
Great video but strategy never pushed JG to the back in Martinsville, that was because JG got a speeding penalty.
When Newman did what he did to Larson I was pissed and I almost quit watching NASCAR because of that move Newman pulled but I’m still here
I thought this was a really good video and the narration was great. I think you should do another one on his other lost ring which I think should’ve been 2007. Quite possible he could’ve been a 6 time champion when he retired.
I’m definitely gonna do one on his 2007 season as well as his 2004 season. I’m glad you liked the video
This was the race that convinced Gordon to retire. He knew this was his last real chance.
If not for the constantly changing chase format, 2014 would’ve been Gordon’s 7th cup title. Just gonna put that out there
I don’t know why I’m watching this I know I’m gonna cry when we get to Texas
it's crazy that losing a tire made him loose the championship
From a Kyle Busch fan, do Kevin Harvick in 2015
Imagine having your last 4 races in a playoff type format where your worst position and car is at Phoenix (being a 2nd place car) and still not making the championship round. Everybody knows that Gordon is the most snake bitten driver in NASCAR since 2001.
It makes a grown man cry
I was at Jeff's next to last win at Dover!!!
I still look back at this and just think, what if?
We can’t really say Jeff would be a 7 time champion without the chase because the game would be played differently, he could’ve still been stuck on four or he may have had 9 there’s no way to truly know.
I also notice that Matt Kenseth has had bad luck with winning both a 2nd Championship and a 3rd Daytona 500...
Whys Newman's chin is like two inches from his steering wheel
I was at Kansas in 2014
He would have won like the next 2 championships under the old format when they first started the chase format instead.
Great video, however I wished you had elaborated more on his last season where you had Kyle Busch who did race the entire season win the championship when it should have been Gordon solely on top.
I never knew _THAT'S_ how Newman got into the final four... I'd almost rather have a championship format that *required* a win than have that happen again.
Great video, you could do multiple missing rings for each year of that format because that era of format yielded Champions that weren't expected and were all won on the case of misfortune meeting others leading to their demise from contention, in the various rounds.
In my view here are my missing rings for those 3 seasons where more than one driver deserved that championship, I know only 1 driver can be crowned champion but more than one driver lost that chance to fight for the championship through other issues and had the speed and the consistency during the season to win the championship. 2014: Dale Jr (what if Talladega didn't end in a wreck, Martinsville win would have locked a spot at Miami and Jr was good there at that time), Joey Logano 2015: Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano (tale of two missing championship fighters affecting each other, who knows what a clean Logano/Kenseth fight at Homestead would have yielded that year) and Kevin Harvick 2016: Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr, Carl Edwards. 2016 you could do a video on Edwards then the others together and their woes of misfortune are similar; both dominated that season but fell out due to engine failures at Talladega. That championship should have had a different final four altogether where Truex, Keselowski, Harvick and either Edwards or Logano should have fought at Homestead and I think NASCAR saw that too introducing the playoff points for 2017.
I know I didn't comment in time (a couple of months) but I think that an Elimination process was a great idea. I would only have a few changes though. If you won, you don't automatically get into the next round, but you come out with maybe 70 points with the stage racing. And have only 1 elimination race. The round 16-8 races (except for ISM(yes Phoenix had a complete change and looks much different)) and have ISM serve as the elimination race for remanding drivers. If a driver falls more then 3 full races behind, then they are eliminated as ISM RaceWay decides which four or five drivers compete for the Championship in a 3 race championship round. The first and second race will be randomized tracks so all of the races could potentially be wild card races. An example would be Race 1 being Sonoma, Race 2 being Bristol but round 3 will always be Homestead. Whoever has the most points by the end of the Championship round, is your Champion.
i like how i got no notification for this video
I wish that NASCAR would have the balls to not allow playoff cars and non-playoff cars to compete in the same race. Give the non-playoff cars a 100-mile consolation race for points run on the same day. Sure, you'd have a 4-car, 267-lap race for Homestead, and three 8-car races leading up to that, but at least that would make the playoff somewhat legitimate.
Texas 2014 was 🔥